What was your first car?

Mine was a 1971 MG Midget that my Father and Uncle rebuilt - with a Ford Cortina engine in it. He raced for the SCCA for years with this (Modified)..then when I turned 16...I earned it..and also was the first car I learned how to drive a manual.

No picture but it was a 1953 Mercury Monterey coupe (no B pillar) w/ Mercamatic auto trans, a flatheat V8 w/ 2 barrel carb. Cream body with dark green roof. Tuck and roll leather interior in the same color combo.

5-speed Mazda B2000 SE-5 with a 2-liter inline 4 making a whopping 82 HP. Since this was the 80's, it spent much of its life with a shell on the bed and dual 15" subs.

1984 Plymouth Horizon. Does not warrant any description or discussion of positive attributes as it had none. It was white.

My one and only Japanese car... 1982 Toyota Corolla hatchback I bought for $600. Stick shift, RWD, no power steering, power windows or power brakes. It was my college car... ran fine and I gave it away to another student when I graduated.

1966 Fiat 850 spider. First one in the U.S. Alan

1966 Ford Mustang GT Convertible. Dark blue with a white ragtop. 289 with a borg-warner T-10 4 speed. And the only Mustang I ever saw with a split bench front seat. Also had factory rally pack gauges on the steering column and an in dash 8 track tape player, oh and front disc brakes. I didn't have a crystal ball so I sold it for 400 bucks because I just had to have a 1970 Mustang Mach I with a 351 Cleveland Motor. Fond memories for sure.

2006 MB c230 K with sport package. I guess I"m the youngest on this thread so far :P

You guys are way too classy for me...1954 Chevy sedan, four door, 235 cu.in. straight six cylinder, three speed manual on column, dark faded blue, paid $35.00 for it. Got me through high school and sold it for $50.00, but I had to put a new clutch in it from racing on the street. Only mod was removing front bumper...looked cooler that way! Hey it was 1967 after-all.

'67 Pontiac GTO convertible with a '68 400 cid purchased the car before I even had my dl, stored it for about 4 months until I was a legal driver drove it for about 5 months and was ready for a hardtop (winter was coming) so I had listed it for sale the next owner was coming to get it that evening and it was totaled (not my fault) on the way home from work 40 years of driving and I've only owned 13 vehicles, excluding the use of 2 company vehicles that were assigned

2000 Saab 9-5.....Sold it within 6 months and bought an e30

1974 Vega GT in 1974....

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Got you beat. Driving for ca. 25 years, 2 cars. 1st was a '95 Ford Escort GT. It was peppy, had great luggage space for its size, and great for road trips as you could get a quality snooze in it. Reliable as all get out. If not for those idiotic motorized seat belts, I would probably still own it. OK, that, and non-functional AC in Texas got it on the wife's "it's gotta go" list. Donated it to charity w/ ca. 180 K on the odo. Am on car # 2, my '11 911S�.T

I was ballin with this in HS. Little did I know that PO probably got rid of it for cheap to a sucker like me as the Bosch L Jetronic systems back then were pieces of garbage. Ended up keeping it for two years and putting all my summer job funds into it eventually spending more on repairs than the car itself before unloading it. Got my first feel for European handling, although the power wasn't quite there. Loved the Bucket seats/suspension/red lit instrument cluster and factory VDO gauges. Not my pic but same car.

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1984 Honda Prelude...the first of 4 Preludes that I would end up owning.

1985 BMW 325e (E30) coupe. Champagne with sport seats and a manual tranny. I loved that car.

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So, would you say it was a prelude to your future Preludes?

1976 Triumph TR-7. I can tell stories about it that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. And they are all true. IMS failure? Ha! Child's play. I drove a TR-7!

1987 RX-7, 5-speed, Dark blue, no power steering, no ABS, no Air bags. Fun little sucker

At 16 years old, I purchased a 1960 Austin Healey Sprite, MK1, Bug-eye, with 21k original miles. The year was 1966. Paid $350. cash and spent $400 to insure it. (My $ not my parents). I owned the car until 1994 when I sold it and other toys so I could buy a 1979 SC Porsche coupe.

Since I was bankrolling my own rides, I owned a LOT of **** cars over the years. Some of the highlights: * Ford Tempo * Mercury Tracer * Olds Delta 88 * An oil embargo era '85 Mustang LX 4-banger with a 0-60 time of, as I recall, about 14 seconds. Someone at Ford should have been beaten with a lead pipe for sticking a Mustang badge on that turd.

1978 FIAT X 1/9, Black with white interior. The most fun you can get from 85 HP. Was my daily frive from 1979 to 1985. I wish I had never sold it.

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My Father had a 1969 Austin Healey - until it was totaled by the largest 1975 Cadillac I'd ever seen... - I was with him when we got T-Boned by it...that car was soo beautiful.

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Mine in order (try and guess when I got married then divorced..) 71 MG Midget 83 BMW 533i 85 Puegeot 505 Sti 79 BMW 733i Next to my 911...Loved this car.....loved it. 95 Ford Windstar (actual last vehicle before the Porsche) 93 Buick LeSabre (ex sold it when I was out of town as a surprise to get me the Contour as a Valentines present..just weeks before put $2k in it......) 99 Ford Contour (First item listed on divorce decree she wanted....LOL) 99 911 996

Mine was a 1946 Ford coupe with a V8 Flathead that was considered to be fast in those days. I was only 14 years old and was not supposed to drive it until I was 15 and 1/2 but of course I didn't wait. No safety equipment at all in those days. Life was better before all the regulations. I soon discovered motorcycles and at 15 had a Harley Knucklehead.

1971 Firebird Formula 455 ci Arguably the best combination of handling & power available for $1,000 in 1978. Picture taken on USMC base in N.C. I was there for the 3 month Advanced Auto Mechanics course so I could learn how to rebuild my engine. After buying, restoring, rebuilding engine & reselling 10, 67-74 Firebirds upgraded to the 1970 TransAm with RamAir IV engine in the picture below:

1967 triumph spitfire - I bought it for �500 in 1980 ... Rust bucket that you could drive much more than 10 miles without a breakdown but it was still fun - and easy to work on - only tools needed were hammer and screwdriver - actually I don't think I ever used the screw driver

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At least you didn't have a Chevy Chevette like one of my ex GF's did. That was a death trap for merging into traffic. Along the same lines, someone at Fud should've been beaten to DEATH for releasing this as a Rustang. Absolutely horrendous and clearly Estrogen driven(as witnessed as the only movie debut in a chick based show - Charlies Angels).

1991 honda crx si paid for by me. My first love felt like a bad *** too because my mom didn't want me to have it...said it was too small and dangerous lol Oh yeaaa

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Went through 3 of those and missed it so much that I bought another one couple years ago. This time a '88 HF due to the 1800lb curb weight and 50mpg non Hybrid mpg's. It's probably one of the lowest HP cars on the road today at 65hp but thank god for the lightweight chassis. It's tempting not to do a K swap but using it as a mpg commuter...

First car was a 1963 VW bug.Bought it for$150 and drove from Montreal to Kitty Hawk N.C and back.Beige with a blue stripe Wow. Sold it for $150 and bought a MGB 1966.Kept it 4 months and fell in love with a 1963 corvette split window coupe.Got married and sold it for........$1800. Do I miss that car a classic and woth today $$$

My parents gave me a very used 1970 VW Bug for my High School graduation way back in 78. I believe they only paid $300 for the car as it had been rolled and the PO was convinced the car was possessed (he was right). Cut most of the body off and converted to a Baja bug. Then had to replace the "semi" automatic transmission (had a shifter but no clutch pedal) to a regular gearbox. Then decided to rebuild the motor from a 1600 to an 1800 - with very little performance gain..... I will say that I learned a tremendous amount about working on cars as there wasn't a bolt anywhere on that car that I didn't put a wrench on at some point. I will also say that it broke often but I was always able to patch it up on the side of the road and get it home.

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Wrong decade! '85 Mustang was the 1st year of the return of the Mustang, (assuming you ordered the V-8) it was 1st year of the GT with roller cam & last year with a 4-barrel carbureator.

First car I bought was a '63 Mercury comet, 6 cyl., 3 sped. On the floor. Had a fair amount of fun in that car.

First car I bought was a '63 Mercury comet, 6 cyl., 3 sped. On the floor. Had a fair amount of fun in that car. After that, had a 61 bug, blue with red and white stripes and a sunroof!

1965 Pontiac Tempest. Very light car with small block V8

Washed dishes 5 nights a week in high school to get this car. 1969 bmw 2002. Fun little car

1979 Mustang Pace Car. My twin brother and I bought it in 82 for $1,500 at repo auction. Got to drive it every other day which equated to every other Saturday.

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Holy crap I had '73 in Agave Green!

My first car was a '72 Vega... It was a free hand-me-down that barely ran when I drove it home, but after a quick tune up was smoking the tires. In many ways it was the perfect first car because it was a stick, lightweight, good handling, fun to drive, and developing some fix-it-yourself skills was kind of a must. Ending up going through a couple of engines, but even performance-tweaked motors were cheap and you and a buddy could literally lift the aluminum engine out of the large v8-compatible engine bay without an engine crane. Swapping an engine on a Vega probably took no more time than changing spark plugs on a 996 turbo... First car I ever purchased was a well used FJ-40. Great truck, can't believe what clean ones are selling for these days... Almost as 'collectable' as air-cooled 911's! First new car I ever purchased was an 1985 CRX. Another great car, lightweight, good handling, stick shift car.

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That was my second car. Mine was a 1977, bought by me in 1982 right before high school graduation. Mine was 2-tone silver over black with navy interior. I drove it to college which was about 2 hours away. I used to pretend that when I left my house I was starting in last place (33rd) at the Indy 500. My mission was to pass 32 cars before I hit the Columbia, Missouri city limits. If I did, I was the Indy 500 champ. Frankly, I think it would have been easier to do that for real in an Indy 500 than it was to pass 32 cars in that Fiat. Passing anybody required a significant amount of advanced planning, geometry, downhill grade, tailwind and luck.

1957 Buick Century hardtop, paid for by me. Cool car to me, but not to anyone else in 1978. I've had a couple hundred cars since then, 11 currently.

1954 VW Beetle

1972 Dodge Coronet wagon. Laugh all you want: Taming Connecticut backroads in that whale, with my secondhand Blaupunkt and gen-u-ine Hella headlights for company, made the winter of 1980 a summer I'll never forget. Thanks, Pop. I miss you.

71 Datsun 510 1600 W/dual Side draft SU Carbs headers and 80' 200sx 5 speed in 1986 . I was an OG Ricer LOL.

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The Family Truckster!

First car, 81 AMC Eagle kammback. The four wheel drive gremlin. Tan on tan 4speed powered by the mighty Pontiac iron duke 151 rated about 85 hp. I do miss that car and wish I would of kept it. Found out a few years ago they didn't make many of them, less than 6000 total.

1989 Toyota Supra Turbo... mowed LOTS of lawns to get it for $12K... and it was also my first car that got stolen... never found. :-(

1970 MGB

1988 Nissan Sentra . 2 door 4 speed manual. My dad bought it for $300 bucks & gave it to me as a graduation present. Kinda a kick in the teeth after my dad took me to check out a RHD 240sx w/turbo sr20 and a mKII MR2 turbo that was a possibility for a graduation present. He was smart and realized they were way too fast for a 18 year old kid after the test drives we got haha. I was grateful for my Sentra since day 1 . And my dad taught me how to drive manual in it.

92 VW Golf GTi, the slowest GTi ever to have the badge, looked cool though.

1970 Austin 1100 2 door. (Not mine but same colour)

1973 MGB, Black Tulip, wire wheels, added Weber side draft carbs and header. I put 127,000 miles on that car. Drove across the US six times while in the Navy. It was a blast of a car. Lots of memories.

My first , I was blessed a 1971-914-6 orange/ black ! Boy do I wish I had that still! I bought it used for $7500 . It was to pick up chicks.....all I got was mechanics!

1978 Fiat 128 2 door saloon, in powder blue with balck vinyl interior, and a 1.290 liter inline 4, putting out a whopping 60 hp, through a manual 4 speed transmission. No AC, no power anything, but I did spring for a set of Hella's to insire the rallye look, as well as a Clarion AM/FM Cassette player with 4 speakers.....Loved that car....gotta find a picture.

1989 Honda CRX SI

My first car that was mine to drive (parents owned it) was a silver 1980 Mazda 626 coupe. The first car that I bought was a green 1979 Alfa Romeo Spider Veloce.

Mine was a 1972 Porsche 914 2.0 that I bought when I was 14 years old. When I bought it there was no interior, no drive train, and it had tree growing through the floorboard and mice in the trunk. It did come with an interior and drive train, but there was quite a bit of assembly required!

1973 Oldsmobile 442 big block (455), automatic. Absolutely insane torque monster.

I bought a '69 Dodge Charger R/T SE in 1984 as my 1st car. It was white with a tan vinyl top, tan leather interior. It was actually quite loaded with options for those days. Had the 440 and a posi-traction rear end. I could not keep the tires from spinning in that thing. It was nearly undriveable in the rain.........or maybe I was too young then to drive sanely. It made my '89 Mustang GT feel pretty tame when I bought it new 5 years later, but that was the quickest new car sold in those days (at least among reasonably priced cars).

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Charger with a 440 six-pack was my dream car. I know I'd be dead now if I'd got hold of that thing!!!

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I like the Mack hood ornament! Was that in Mack and Bethlehem Steel country?

Resurrecting this thread as I came across some pics of the car I learned to drive on, a 1957 VW and my first car, a 1972 340 Duster (after I did some major work on it through high school). After the Duster was finished in 1985, I took it around to events like Street Machine nationals and won a first in class at the World of Wheels show in Philadelphia. Yup, that's me with the 1979 long hair on the passenger side with my Dad.

Behold!

QInKiHj.jpg 1979 Fiat X 1/9. Not my pic but exact same car. Bought when I was 15 in 1988!

I bought it in 1963 and I still have it.

Parents were here planning on moving back to Portugal. Bought a Renault 12 to take back as cars were heavily taxed in Portugal. Never moved back. I drove one for 18 months.....Then at 19, got a brand new Mustang coupe 1988. Believe it or not, Renault 12 was in production for well over 30 years.

1965 John Fitch Corvair Sprint

1965 Mustang fastback, with a 351C swapped in. "4V" heads, sourced from a Pantera, and a BIG cam. Nobody home power wise at low RPM, but above 3500, LOOK OUT! After blowing through two C4 automatics, I put a wide-ratio Toploader behind the beastly mill. The rest of the car was a pile of rust, glued together with primer.

61 VW Kombi for $500.00 (1978) and it was a rust bucket. My friends and I had so much fun in that bus!

'67 Mustang with a straight 6 cylinder and 3 speed manual. Paid $400 for it, in 1975.

1959 Renault Dauphine The year was 1970. I was 12 years old. The car was given to me by a friend of my father. He replaced the Dauphine with a VW Beetle for his teenage daughter. A few of us neighborhood kids had "Woods" cars. Cars we drove through the woods. Not the actual car but identical.

1980 Datsun 210 coupe was my first car (something like 65 neck cracking HP...think I got it to 100mph downhill with a tailwind once!)...first car I ever bought was a spotless 1984 Audi 4000 w/manual transmission. Still probably my favorite of all my cars. Got it at a steal in 1991 cuz it was the year of the uncontrolled acceleration 4000's...got even sweeter when, 2 weeks later, I got sideswiped by a Saab and got totaled and I bought it back from the insurance co. for $700. Best $700 car I could ever own...just had to drive around with a dent in my driver's door, a crumpled area over the front fender....no biggie for a broke recent college grad looking for a job.

1976 VW Type II Transporter - inherited when my father passed in '84 - Made probably 100 trips between Tucson and the Bay Area when I was in college and before moving north - loved that bus - even fully loaded it seemed like it could crawl up pretty much any mountain in third gear.

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lol, I can't believe there are three of us that drove a Renault as their first car. Mine was a '69 R10. This picture was taken before I was old enough to drive but it looked the same when I eventually got it. I'll bet! .

Late 90s volvo that was my dads, kinda wish I still had it.

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My wife of 39 years, her first car was also a Renault. An R-16 her father dragged out of a salvage yard. Like this one. What a coincidence. Also her birthday is 3 days after mine!

Could u guess from my username? An 88 jeep wrangler like this but without the cocacola sticker. Bought it in '92 and still have it but it looks a little different. Last Sept on the Rubicon.

1973 MGB in 1979. Harvest Gold over black. I learned a lot about electrical system trouble shooting and general mechanics when I owned that car, which paid off in the long run. Owned it about 25 years. It was my daily driver until I bought a new Mustang GT in 1985 after I graduated from Georgia Tech.

1977 Camaro Type LT, black with a tan landau roof, bought in 1979. On the test drive my father thought it had rather anemic power for a 350. That's because it had a 305 with a whopping 145hp. I drove that car until my first born was on the way. My wife had a 1980 Datsun 210. Guess which car won out?

First car I drove, not owned. 1969 Toyota Sports 800. My Dad bought it in Japan and imported it to the U.S. in 1971. First car I actually paid for myself, 1974 Capri with the V6.

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Love the Capri. The first new car I ever bought was a 1973 Capri. Sadly they have almost all rusted away.

Nissan Micra, rated as the most unsafe car at the time. Bought it used for $200, failed first inspection due to rust. Went to the scrap yard.

I had three cars in high school, all bought by working as a cook at night and having a lawn service during the day (didn't get much sleep those days) 1. Opel GT -- bought very used from my dad for $1500 when he got a 240Z, looked cool, not a great car, threw a rod at about 80mph trying to do a high(ish) speed backroad run. 2. 65 Buick Riviera -- Saw it on side of road with a sign asking $900 -- I literally didn't even know what the car was, but it looked really cool, had a massive 425 cubic inch Wildcat V8, original owner, very low miles, every receipt from new and perfect condition -- the guy even had receipts for having it washed weekly at the dealer. Bought it immediately, still not knowing what it was (but very sure it was worth a lot more than he was asking). Drove it briefly, plenty of power, handling was not stellar, flipped it for I think $2600 (probably around 1979). 3. Porsche 914 - Fun car, bought it for $2300, came with aftermarket (loud) and stock exhaust -- used to alternate between the two every 6 months or so and it was always a relief to go to the other exhaust (either too loud or too quiet gets old after a while). I put a rocking audio system in it - Pioneer SuperTuner, Pioneer equalizer, and Jensen separates. Not a fast car, but it was a magical transformation when the top came off with Santana cranked up.

Modified '84 Gti

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I LOVE the looks of the Rivera, and the POWER! Friend had one in high school, we could be doing 70, hit the gas and snap your neck and lay rubber, before you know it you hit 140...one bad *** car!

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I think I was 16 or 17 when I owned it. I was generally a pretty responsible kid, but I did a very, very long burnout starting in front of my friend's house that left black marks a long way down the street (or maybe mark (singular) -- can't remember if it had positraction or not). I did my share of stupid stuff like everyone else, but that was a bit out of character for me. His dad happened to be watching out the window and he never looked at me the same after that.

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My best hangout buddy had a '63 or '64 Riviera in high school in 1974/75. The car was powered by a 425 with "factory" dual quads"! Buicks were torque monsters..........

No pics of it unfortunately but my first was a 1986 Honda Prelude. My dad talked me out of a Mustang because it was "impractical and too much power" for a young driver.

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Very cool -- that was the "Super Wildcat" engine.

My first car was a 1973 Camaro RS I bought it in 1986. Drove it until 1991 when I put it in storage with hopes of restoring it. Pulled it out of the barn and started restoring it in 2003. Got it on the road in 2009. Installed an LS6 and T56 6 speed manual trans in it a few years ago. I don't have any old pictures by the ones here are recent ones from the Chevy High Performance photo spread.

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Mine was a 1952, oxidized red exterior with white roof.

Got me sister's handme down vw bug. Light blue, all four fenders and hood dented and resprayed but flaking off. no power but it had a radio.

1982 Datsun 4x4 truck.

Here is my first car, bought it about 6 months before I was able to get my driver's license. 1962 Austin Healy Sprite, cost $130.00 not running, but came with 3 boxes of parts including a working starter that was the problem. Got some new spark plugs, grabbed a garden hose and sponge, and I was in business. Correction, I was in heaven. All of our gang of guys were into the British sports cars: Triumphs, MGs, Austin. Some of you New Jersey guys might recognize the bumper sticker: Mother's in Greenwood Lake! The license plate VUE-642 is still framed and hanging in my garage.

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First track car. (Bridgehampton early 70�s) and yes many weekend trips across the border from Jersey to Greenwood lake including Mothers in the 60�s. Drinking age in Jersey 21 in NY it was 18. Brings back some crazy memories.

My first car (in 1992) was a 1986 Subaru XT 5spd. It was the base model; front wheel drive, 1.6L, non-turbo, 13" wheels. Bought it for $1600, drove it for 3.5 years, and sold it for $1600. That car lived a HARD life. Haha.

1957 Chevy. I had a great aunt who was a bookkeeper for a local chevy dealer and she bought the car new in '57. I got it for $100 in 1969. Although she garaged it, it had some cancer so I restored it after graduating and sold it. 😂

Nothing as cool as some of you guys. Towed a �69 Corolla home to my parents house and rebuilt it so that it actually ran. I had to re-engineer the linkage to open the secondary early so that I could cross intersections without getting killed. All 63 HP unleashed. Made it through high school and into college. Sold it for a whopping $300 to my roommate.

Man mine was a 1993 Acura Integra LS... loved that car.

1988 jeep wrangler. Looked like this Still own it but it now looks like this.

My first was a 65 Corvair Corsa, four carbs, four speeds, and a flat six.....sold it before I got drafted. The biggest problem wasn't the car, but the stealership as most of the mechanics were not used to an air-cooled motor/were never really trained or took their frustrations out on them. I later found a Piper/Aeronica mechanic to help with the maintenance. This picture is about as close to the car as I could find. It was green with a white interior without the usual GM styled jukebox dashboard but rather an elegantly simple black wrinkle-finished dashboard, and a floor shift. Now I own another flat six, with a six speed and lovely styled headlights.

A 1958 TR3A, black over black with steelies.

Mine was/is my �99 996� First and only one ever, I�ve driven plenty of cars before, though.

My first car was a '65 Corvair Corsa, 4 speed, British Racing Green that I converted to a Fitch Sprint w/black top. I raced a few hillclimbs and loved that car. Too bad Ralph Nader destroyed any value that car had!

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How did you guys get around? * * yes, it's a British car reliability joke

My first car? Question, is owning a car for a week or two considering "owning", like flipping a car? I purchased my first car around 31 years or so ago, was a white 1967 Datsun 2000 (Fairlady) with body damaged and needs tune-up for $600 with clean title, and got it sort out in a week, painted yellow and sold it for $2500 in less than two weeks. Made around $1600. Then bought a white 1985 Toyota Celica GTS six month later for $500 with bad engine and minor body damaged, but clean title also, swap out with a salvage yard engine ($800) and fixed the body and sold it $6000 in less than a week, made around $4500, all in my mom's backyard. Use the $6000 to purchase my Euro Spec 1980 BMW 635CSI with dogleg 5 speed and kept it for around 6 years until I met my girlfriend (now wife) and sold it to start our family. Hello Honda Accord and Honda Odyssey. Photos below are not my cars, borrowed from the web. They are very close looking to my cars, especially the BMW, looks almost the same even with the same Alpina wheels, but my do not have pinstripe. .

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My brother also had a Euro Spec 635CSI-- it was a great car overall, but what made it so special to drive was that transmission -- super precise and very close ratios for a grand touring car. Power was relatively tame compared to today's standards, but that close-ratio transmission allowed you to extract a lot of performance out of it.

By learning how to repair them, on the side of the road if necessary.

My first car was in 1987 and was a 1970 Ford Maverick with the 5.0 V8. Had vacuum leaks, no brakes and was gold with white vinyl top. I called him "Gold Finger". the ladies liked it.

1973 Ford Thunderbird 2 door coupe, blue over white leather interior

1970 Ford Mustang coupe in pastel blue. Like the one here (not my actual car but close! )

My 1st car was a 77 Camaro Type LT, bought in my senior HS year in 1979. I thought it had a 350 V8, but it felt a little sluggish. Nope - 305 V8 with a whopping 145 HP. It was black with a tan tonneau roof, black interior. I was talked into putting a T-roof on it. That roof used to leak like a sieve in a hard rain! Marriage and child came along rather quickly, so out went the Camaro and in went my wife's 1980 Corolla. Now that car was slow!

1984 VW Rabbit GTI. Silver with blue corduroy interior. Loved that car! 90HP but felt very quick back in the day when a sub 10 second 0-60 time was considered respectable.

In the mid '80s, my first car was a '69 Mustang 302 2 barrel w drum brakes. It was an old car then but could beat the late 70s Camaros and TAs my friends had.

Hah, late 70's Datsun B210 P.O.S. that wouldn't die. I was into crotch rockets so I just wanted something to drive when it was raining. I beat on it, drove it into ditches and dragged it out, never changed the oil, did my own clutch replacement and it never worked quite right and it still wouldn't die so I sold it to my brother 3 years later. Picture is similar

Wow, you all had nice or interesting cars. First I shared was an 9 year old manual 1987 Ford Escort, that I shared with my brother. Downhill with a tailwind I might have had it up to 90 once, speedo only went to 85 though. ​​​​​ 1st car that was mine a 1989 Pontiac Grand Prix with a 2.8L V6, auto , I liked that one. Not mine, but the same:

�65 Mustang Fastback. Began life as a 289 2bbl, with a C4 auto. I stuffed in a 351C with the big port (4bbl) heads (sourced from a Pantera) and backed by a top-loader 4spd. It was a total POS, but it was a fast POS.

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I sitll have an original paint 1985 Omni GLHT.

First new car I ever purchased was a 1981 VW Rabbit Diesel 4 speed manual, great car. Got nearly 50mpg but sometimes into a headwind you couldn't get it up to 55mph. Only had 52hp!.

Speaking of British, I also inherited a 1971 MG BGT. Wife�s father bought it new. Fun project car with my son. Motor is currently out while we install a new clutch

1976 VW type II transporter - looked a lot like this. Had it from 1983 through 1997. Made about 100 trips between Tucson and San Francisco. Over the grapevine on I-5 I could hold 40 mph no matter the load inside and on top.

Red on Red 1982 Capri RS 5.0 (mustang rebadged). Fast for the time, very nose heavy. Loved it.

First car was a 1963 Alfa Romero Guilia coupe. bought in 1972. First Porsche was a 1967 911 coupe bought in 1973.

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A friend of mine had one of those old Rabbit Diesels -- he bought it for $400 -- it was worn out and quad-color: grey, primer, rust, and perforations . And, of course, it was much slower than molasses. He had a custom banner made for across the top of the windshield that said "OUTAMYWAY!!" printed backwards (so that drivers ahead of him could read it in their rear view mirror). I couldn't stop laughing the first time he pulled into my driveway with that thing.

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I saw one of these at the infield of the 24 hours of Daytona -- hadn't seen one up close in decades. It's a very cool car, but the thing I noticed is that the driver is the "crumple zone" in these things. There's nothing between you and whatever you hit except a thin sheet of tin and your Calvin Klien's .

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4 cylinder, 1980 Chevy Monza. $50.00. The guy had just put a $100 stereo in it. True story. 2nd car was Dodge Charger 2.2, 1985. What a great car. Third car started my car passion. Mint 1982 Datsun 280zx. Daily drove it for 5 years plus. And the rest is history as they say.

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White 1989 BMW 325i Sedan w/ 5speed manual. I sold it to a guy who was in air force and it went back to Germany where it became a Ring car. He later brought it back state side years later but I wasn't in the position to buy it back at the time.